Professional Development Modules

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Texas Instructional Leadership (TIL)

Vetted Improvement Program

Texas Instructional Leadership is a program that consists of a suite of trainings intended to foster continuous improvement by helping campus and district administrators grow concrete instructional leadership skills in the areas of observation and feedback, student culture, and data driven instruction.  The TIL trainings listed below are aligned with many of the best practices described in the ESF:

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    Observation & Feedback

Texas Instructional Leadership (TIL) is designed to strengthen a leader’s skill in coaching school principals as they develop others (teachers) through the See it, Name It, Do It model of practiced-based professional development. Effective instructional leaders observe classroom instruction and successfully identify high-leverage precise action steps that impact teacher growth. Developing teacher expertise through incremental changes in teacher practice has a
tremendous impact on student growth and achievement.

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Observation & Feedback addresses key elements that target powerful techniques that make teaching more effective and the principles of coaching/feedback that transforms teacher practices and enhance student performance:

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• Develop Essential Routines and Procedures

• Roll out and Monitor Routines

• Engage every Student

• Set Routines for Discourse

• Write Effective Lesson Plans

• Give Students Opportunities for Independent Practice

• Respond to Student Learning Needs

• Facilitate Student Discourse

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    Data-Driven Instruction

Data-Driven Instruction is a highly effective, research-based training that guides teachers and administrators to spend less time teaching their students what they already know and more time on what their students need. It also answers the questions, “How do I know if my students are learning? And if they aren’t, what do I do? Based on the protocol developed by Paul Bambrick-Santoyo and described in his books Driven by Data 2.0 and Leverage Leadership 2.0, TIL DDI advocates for a deeper analysis of student work.

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    Formative Assessment

Texas Instructional Leadership (TIL) builds skills to successfully implement objective-driven daily lesson plans and formative assessment through the See It, Name It, Do It model of practiced-based professional development. Successful teachers know the most critical or essential parts of an aligned lesson and intentionally plan and design these into their
lessons.

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Formative Assessment addresses critical components of well designed lesson plans that include
 

Texas Instructional Leadership (TIL) Modules:

• Lesson Alignment and Formative Assessment

• Data Driven Instruction

• Action Coaching/Observation Feedback

• School-wide Culture Routines

• Crafting Lesson Objectives

• Developing Objectives & Exit Tickets

• Creating Exemplar Responses & Success Criteria

• Monitoring for Lesson Alignment

• Practicing Aggressive Monitoring & Show Call

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    Schoolwide Culture Routines

Texas Instructional Leadership (TIL) builds skills to successfully design, plan, and practice essential school-wide culture routines through the See it, Name It, Do It model of practiced-based professional development. In high-performing schools, the vision, mission, values and goals are explicitly evidenced in student expectations and management systems.
School leaders and teachers intentionally plan and design these into school-wide and classroom routines.

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